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The Milk Lady of Bangalore: An Unexpected Adventure
SHOBA NARAYAN · Algonquin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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When Shoba Narayan, a writer and cookbook author who had lived for years in Manhattan, moves back to Bangalore with her family, she befriends the milk lady, from whom she buys fresh milk every day. These two women from very different backgrounds bond over not only cows, considered holy... |
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Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story
Daphne Sheldrick · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya's rich variety of wildlife, and her pioneering work in perfecting... |
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The Cat Whisperer: Why Cats Do What They Do--and How to Get Them to Do What You Want
Mieshelle Nagelschneider · Bantam Books
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
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Who says you can't train a cat? Just when you thought you had reached the end of your ball of twine, one of America's most popular cat behaviorists comes to the rescue of perplexed cat owners everywhere, providing practical and effective strategies for solving every feline behavior... |
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The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
PETER WOHLLEBEN · Dutton
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.In this first-ever... |
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When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Terry Tempest Williams · Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved author of Refuge returns with a work that explodes and startles illuminates and celebratesTerry Tempest Williamss mother told herI am leaving you all my journals but you must promise me you wont look at them until after Im goneReaders of Williamss iconic and unconventional memoir... |
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Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches
Jill A Fredston · Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Every year around the globe, people cross paths with avalanches-some massive, some no deeper than a pizza box-often with deadly results. Avalanche expert Jill Fredston stalks these so-called freaks of nature, forecasting where and when they will strike, deliberately triggering them with... |
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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside
Tim Birkhead · Bloomsbury
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead opens this gripping story as a female guillemot chick hatches, already carrying her full quota of tiny eggs within her undeveloped ovary. As she grows into adulthood, only a few of her eggs mature, are released into the oviduct, and are fertilized by sperm... |
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Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America
Douglas Brinkley · Harper
Pages: 752
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed, award-winning historian - "America's new past master" (Chicago Tribune) - examines the environmental legacy of FDR and the New Deal.Douglas Brinkley's The Wilderness Warrior celebrated Theodore Roosevelt's spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision to protect... |
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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An argument for the urgent danger of global warming in a book that is sure to be as influential as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject of global warming. Americans... |
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